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Monday, October 20, 2008

Infamy Discovered in English 202In my English 202 class at San Diego City College, the professor forced us to read this book “the Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli. I didn’t realize at the time, how influential this book would be in my understanding of politics, war, and political power. “The Prince”, which I still own, revolutionized the world, and serves as political science gospel. Vestiges of Machiavellian teachings control modern political power.

Influence and Big BrotherIt can be argued that most rulers or presidents, base their reign on these tactics. Hitler and his Nazi’s serve as perfect examples. The liberal slut Lia pointed out a priceless quote by Nazi leader Hermann Goering that blew my mind, and totally reminded me of Machiavelli. Then take Machiavelli, Goering’s quotes and read George Orwell’s 1984 and Kabam. Total mind blow.

So, in response to my last post of quotes… here is another for you. Machiavelli quotes, followed by some Goering quotes, then Orwell, then followed by a surprise (that does tie in to Machiavelli).

Think, analyze and enjoy.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

Niccolò Machiavelli Site From site "Machiavelli is the key figure in the realistic political theory of the Renaissance and crucial to later political philosophy and political science. He was the author of The Prince, a work intended to be an instruction book for rulers. In it, he advocated the theory that whatever was expedient was necessary - an early example of utilitarianism and realpolitik as these theories were elaborated later, especially in the 20th century"

Prince article"Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is arguably the most popular book about politics ever written. Its observations about human behavior are as true today as they were five hundred years ago. In this book, Machiavelli offers advice to politicians regarding how to gain power and how to keep it.

Although modern readers think that a "prince" is someone who is destined to inherit control of his country, the princes of Machiavelli's time were by no means that secure: the prince had to be careful to keep the support of his citizens if he wanted to remain in power. The methods that Machiavelli suggests for leaders to keep public support are just as relevant for today's elected officials as they were for leaders of the sixteenth century."

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. Niccolo Machiavelli

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. Niccolo Machiavelli

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. Niccolo Machiavelli

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. Niccolo Machiavelli

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. Niccolo Machiavelli

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. Niccolo Machiavelli

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. Niccolo Machiavelli

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. Niccolo Machiavelli

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. Niccolo Machiavelli

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. Niccolo Machiavelli

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics have no relation to morals. Niccolo Machiavelli

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. Niccolo Machiavelli

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. Niccolo Machiavelli

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolo Machiavelli

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. Niccolo Machiavelli

The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be good laws... Niccolo Machiavelli

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. Niccolo Machiavelli

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Niccolo Machiavelli

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. Niccolo Machiavelli

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. Niccolo Machiavelli

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Niccolo Machiavelli

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. Niccolo Machiavelli

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not Niccolo Machiavelli

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present. Niccolo Machiavelli

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be? Niccolo Machiavelli

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Niccolo Machiavelli

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Niccolo Machiavelli

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people. Niccolo Machiavelli

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. Niccolo Machiavelli

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. Niccolo Machiavelli

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. Niccolo Machiavelli

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred... Niccolo Machiavelli

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. Niccolo Machiavelli

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. Niccolo Machiavelli

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Niccolo Machiavelli

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. Niccolo Machiavelli

Before all else, be armed. Niccolo Machiavelli

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better. Niccolo Machiavelli

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage. Niccolo Machiavelli

"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli." Howard Zinn

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country" Hermann Goering

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense. I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so. Hermann Goering

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.Hermann Goering

Later in the conversation, Gilbert recorded Goering's observations that the common people can always be manipulated into supporting and fighting wars by their political leaders Hermann Goering

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders." Hermann Goering

(Bio From Website) Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also spelled Hermann Goering in English) (January 12, 1893 — October 15, 1946) was a prominent and early member of the Nazi party, founder of the Gestapo, and one of the main architects of Nazi Germany. He is often quoted from the Nuremberg Diary, a book containing interviews of top Nazi Officials during the Nuremberg Trials, written by an intelligence officer and psychologist, Gustave Gilbert.

Göring surrendered to American troops on May 8/9, 1945 in Austria and was the highest ranking Nazi official brought before the Nuremberg Trials. Though he defended himself vigorously, he was sentenced to death; the judgement stated that "his guilt is unique in its enormity". Defying the sentence imposed by his captors, he committed suicide with a cyanide capsule handed to him by Erich von dem Bach the night before he was supposed to be hanged

George Orwell 1984 Quotes

Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it… All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"

"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."

"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." - referring to the proles

"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."

"The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable…"

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."

“Tupac being shot after leaving a theater with a friend, which is very similar to how he was shot in real life. He ends up as an angel in heaven. In the video Hail Mary released under the name Makaveli, there is a gravestone by that name. But the gravestone is cracked and there is a hole right in front of it, leading believers to infer that Makaveli rose from the dead. Machiavelli was a 16th century Italian philosopher who advocated the staging of one’s death in order to evade one’s enemies and gain power. Tupac studied Machiavelli in depth while in prison. Perhaps Tupac is taking his advice? Machiavelli wrote two books before his death. Machiavelli’s books were called Book 1 and Book 2. The CDs of 2Pac’s All Eyez On Me are entitled the same.” Quote stolenfrom this site

Now can your mind picture, a thug nigga drinkin hard liquor This ghetto life has got me catchin up to God quicker Who would figure that all I need was a hair trigger semi-automatic Mack 11 just to scare niggaz Pardon my thug poetry, but suckers is born everyday and fear of man - grow on trees Criminal ties for centuries, a legend in my own rhymes So niggaz whisper when they mention Machiavelli was my tutor Donald Goines, my father figure Moms sent me to go play with the drug dealers Hits fall, we thug niggaz and we came in packs. Every one of niggaz strapped sippin on 'nac (Cognac) In the back, my AR-15 Thuggin till I die, these streets got me cravin thorazine My lyrics are blueprints to money makin Fat as that ass that honey shakin -Tupac in Tradin War Stories